Bell OH-58A
N39FA is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dickinson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 11, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 71-20660
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A480EE (octal 51100356)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2002
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · October 11, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00985801
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Henry Mark A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12900 Fm 3436 Rd
Dickinson, TX 77539-2565
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N39FA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Henry Mark A, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 11, 1996, 25 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71-20660 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N39FA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 550 (serial 5500139, cancelled January 6, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N39FA: Accident on March 8, 2000 at Calipatria, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arrow Aircraft Co. OH-58A · operated under 137
The pilot's inadequate checklist procedure prior to departure, which did not verify the fuel selector was in the proper position for flight, and the pilot's failure to maintain adequate main rotor speed for an autorotative landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA118 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data